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Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 16 : (search)
Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 17 : (search)
Chapter 17:
The fate of Atlanta
Hood's advance in North Georgia
attack on Allatoona
Sherman's March to the sea
fall of Fort McAllister
evacuation of Savannah
Georgians in the Nashville campaign.
Immediately after his return to Atlanta from Jonesboro, Sherman determined to make that city a military camp, and is ps struck the railroad at Acworth and Big Shanty, capturing 400 prisoners and some stores.
Major-General French's division, about 3,000 strong, was sent against Allatoona, one of Sherman's most important depots, where were stored about 1,000,000 rations.
The Federal garrison of 890 men, under Colonel Tourtellotte, had been reinfo s being transmitted mainly by the signal stations established on the summits of the hills and mountains along the Federal line of communication.
Corse reached Allatoona about 1 a. m. of the 5th.
French arrived about 3 a. m., uninformed of the Federal reinforcements, and before daylight, while skirmishing was going on with the p